Principal Investigator:Hutchinson, Tom Licensed Year(s):
1977
Summary:
To determine the degree of recovery of crude oil spills made in 1972 and 1973 on taiga at Norman Wells and tundra at Tuktoyaktuk. To determine the effects of a 1975 diesel oil spill on taiga at Norman Wells and to compare the effects with crude oil spills made in comparable terrain. To examine the pattern of vegetational recovery of these areas. To examine the effects of crude oil spills made o...
Principal Investigator:Hutchinson, Tom Licensed Year(s):
1977
Summary:
To develop a practical and economic method of revegetation of "difficult" tailings and mine sites in the N.W.T., using acid and metal tolerant vegetation growing naturally at the highly stressed Smoking Hills area of Cape Bathurst, N.W.T....
Principal Investigator:Hutchinson, Tom Licensed Year(s):
1976
Summary:
To examine revegation of northern tailings and mining areas using materials from an acid-heavy metal stressed Arctic area....
Principal Investigator:Hutchinson, Tom Licensed Year(s):
1975
Summary:
To ascertain how crude oil affects terrestrial and aquatic plants, and soil and water micro-organisms, for Arctic Land Use Research Program....